NEUROCOGNITIVE MECHANISMS C

Gualtiero Piccinini presents a systematic and rigorous philosophical defence of the computational theory of cognition. His view posits that cognition involves neural computation within multilevel neurocognitive mechanisms, and includes novel ideas about ontology, functions, neural representation, neural computation, and consciousness.

Gualtiero Piccinini is Curators' Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Center for Neurodynamics at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. In 2014, he received the Herbert A. Simon Award from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. In 2018, he received the K. Jon Barwise Prize from the American Philosophical Association. In 2019, he received the Chancellor's Award for Research and Creativity from University of Missouri - St. Louis. His publications include Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account (Oxford University Press, 2015).

1: Levels of Being
2: Mechanisms, Multiple Realizability, and Medium Independence
3: Functional Mechanisms
4: Mechanistic Functionalism
5: The First Computational Theory of Cognition: McCulloch and Pitts's A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity
6: Computation and Information Processing
7: Mechanistic Models of Cognition: From Autonomy to Integration
8: The Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution
9: The Computational Theory of Cognition
10: The Church-Turing Fallacy
11: The Resilience of the Computational Theory of Cognition
12: Neural Representation
13: Neural Computation
14: Computation and the Function of Consciousness